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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
With Greece an attractive market as one of the world’s heaviest smoking countries, the multinational cigarette-maker Japan Tobacco International (JTI) has begun production of its Winston brand for Greece and another nine countries at the once state-owned Sekap facility in northeast Greece.
Production began Oct. 22, said the business newspaper Naftemporiki, with exports set to begin in 2020 to nine EU countries with Winston joining the company’s lineup of the cigarette brands GR, BF and Cooper.
The Japanese tobacco giant purchased the Sekap facility in the northeast city of Xanthi in 2018 from the Russian-Greek Savvidis group, while sinking another $10 million in capital to upgrade the facility. Northeast Greece is the center of Greece’s tobacco belt.
Ivan Savvidis, the former owner of the Sekap facility, has been a wanted man since bringing a gun onto the soccer field of the team he owns, PAOK, but hasn’t been detained, questioned, arrested or prosecuted since.
Winston is billed as the second biggest selling cigarette brand in the world since 2007, having first debuted in the United States in 1954. It is sold in some 120 countries today, the report also added.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — With local elections across Turkey days away, legal experts are coaching thousands of volunteer election monitors on the rules they'll need to watch for fraud and ensure a fair vote.
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — With local elections across Turkey days away, legal experts are coaching thousands of volunteer election monitors on the rules they'll need to watch for fraud and ensure a fair vote.
After George Floyd was killed under a Minneapolis police officer’s knee, reporters at The Associated Press wanted to know how many other people died following encounters in which law enforcement used not firearms but other kinds of force that is not supposed to be fatal.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Naz Reid had 21 points and 10 rebounds and Jaden McDaniels added 20 points to help the Minnesota Timberwolves overcome a sluggish start Wednesday night to beat the NBA -worst Detroit Pistons 106-91.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — LeBron James had a triple-double with 23 points, 14 rebounds and 12 assists, Rui Hachimura scored 32 points as the Los Angeles Lakers built a big lead in the third quarter and beat the Memphis Grizzlies 136-124 on Wednesday night.